diff --git a/src/syndicate.nim b/src/syndicate.nim
index aa4dee2..fe28aa9 100644
--- a/src/syndicate.nim
+++ b/src/syndicate.nim
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export patterns
 export Actor, Assertion, Facet, Handle, Ref, Symbol, Turn, TurnAction,
     `$`, addCallback, analyse, asyncCheck, bootDataspace,
         facet, future, inFacet, message, newDataspace, onStop, publish,
-        retract, replace, run, stop, unembed
+        retract, replace, run, stop, unembed, unpackLiterals
 
 proc `!`*(typ: static typedesc): Pattern {.inline.} =
   patterns.dropType(typ)
diff --git a/src/syndicate/patterns.nim b/src/syndicate/patterns.nim
index 0d9018e..e3c02fc 100644
--- a/src/syndicate/patterns.nim
+++ b/src/syndicate/patterns.nim
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ proc grabDict*(): Pattern =
 proc unpackLiterals*[E](pr: Preserve[E]): Preserve[E] =
   result = pr
   apply(result) do (pr: var Preserve[E]):
-    if pr.isRecord("lit", 1):
+    if pr.isRecord("lit", 1) or pr.isRecord("dict", 1) or pr.isRecord("arr", 1) or pr.isRecord("set", 1):
       pr = pr.record[0]
 
 proc inject*(pat: Pattern; bindings: openArray[(int, Pattern)]): Pattern =
diff --git a/syndicate.nimble b/syndicate.nimble
index 91cdcbd..a1d1031 100644
--- a/syndicate.nimble
+++ b/syndicate.nimble
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Package
 
-version = "20230608"
+version = "20230610"
 author        = "Emery Hemingway"
 description   = "Syndicated actors for conversational concurrency"
 license       = "Unlicense"
diff --git a/tests/Tupfile b/tests/Tupfile
index c8cc278..9525ad8 100644
--- a/tests/Tupfile
+++ b/tests/Tupfile
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 include_rules
-: foreach test*.nim | $(SYNDICATE_PROTOCOL) |> !nim_run |>
+: foreach *.prs |> !preserves_schema_nim |> | {schema}
+: foreach test*.nim | {schema} $(SYNDICATE_PROTOCOL) |> !nim_run |>
diff --git a/tests/test_patterns.nim b/tests/test_patterns.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..883d45a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_patterns.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: ☭ Emery Hemingway
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Unlicense
+
+import std/unittest
+
+import preserves, syndicate
+from syndicate/protocols/dataspace import Observe
+type Observe = dataspace.Observe[Ref]
+
+import ./test_schema
+
+
+test "patterns":
+  let observerPat = ?Observe(pattern: !Foo) ?? {0: grab()}
+  check($observerPat == """<rec Observe [<rec rec [<lit foo> <arr [<bind <_>> <_> <_>]>]> <_>]>""")
+
+  let
+    value = @["alles", "in", "ordnung"]
+    observer = toPreserve(Observe(pattern: inject(?Foo, { 0: ?value })), Ref)
+    have = capture(observerPat, observer).toPreserve(Ref).unpackLiterals
+    want = [value.toPreserve(Ref)].toPreserve(Ref)
+  check(have ==  want)
diff --git a/tests/test_schema.nim b/tests/test_schema.nim
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1c69596
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_schema.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+
+import
+  preserves
+
+type
+  Foo* {.preservesRecord: "foo".} = object
+    `x`*: seq[string]
+    `y`*: BiggestInt
+    `z`*: BiggestInt
+
+proc `$`*(x: Foo): string =
+  `$`(toPreserve(x))
+
+proc encode*(x: Foo): seq[byte] =
+  encode(toPreserve(x))
diff --git a/tests/test_schema.prs b/tests/test_schema.prs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a8658b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_schema.prs
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+version 1 .
+Foo = <foo @x [string ...] @y int @z int> .